Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-11

branches, they cannot truly be called
representative men. Perhaps of all
men in this country who might be se-
lected as representative, Washington
would stand first. His devotion to
truth, his filial duty, his patriotism
and all those attributes which caused
him to be placed at the head of the
then young nation, qualified him to
be selected as a representative of the
whole people. Another who might
also be called a representative man
when all signs of strife have died out
is Lincoln, who in his quiet manner
was mindful of the happiness of
others. His name will live in the
minds of all as a representative of the
people. While there may have been
some mistakes made by Grant, yet he
can well be classed with the other
two. Grant possessed one thing which
enabled him to assume this position
as repress ntative, and that was an in
domitable will. This was shown in
the manner in which he wrote the his
tory of himself, out of love for the
members of his family, in order that
they might not be burden on the
government which he had saved with
his sword. Racked with disease down
to his dying hour he labored with this
purpose i'm view. 1t is a bare possibil-
ity that there is one young man in the
audience who may be called to act as
a representative of the people, and yet
it is possible for every one to possess
the same attributes of character. A
man is not less great because he is not
conspicuous, and there have been
many who could have been called req
resentatives of the people though they
were not conspicuous. In training the
young to become representatives the
teacher in school should first of all
strive to impart character. 1t is char
acter by which the man should be
measured. In business relations we
do not measure the men by the
capital they possess, but by their
character. The principle "Trade
knows no friends nor kindred" is not
adopted by any honorable man, and
the man who practices that precept,
however wealthy, is not a proper rep
resentative Of the community. The
man who refuses to associate himself
with anything calculated to work harm
to others, is the only one who could
be chosen as representative. 1t is,
therefore, easily seen how important
it is that character should be impaired
to the scholar. The only solid thing
we can carry into the future is charac-
ter. There are some here who may
not stay, but if we do stay we become
q part of the community, and the
character of that community is import
ant to us. The future of Southern
California may be notorious or it may
be representative. 1t may be notori-
GUS for its land speculations. If it is
to be representative it will not be no.
torious. 1t will be representative if it
becomes place where men all attend
to their own business and endeayor to
give it a good character. We
may be buried here, and if we
are, let it be said that we lived for the
good of our fellow men. Every one of
us is a representative man, who lives
for that purpose, and as such we will
aid in healing the alienation from God
of our fellow men. These principles,
on a broader basis, apply to life gener-
ally. What we know of one man we
know of every man. What might be
affirmed of Los Angeles may be
affirmed OF the whole world. Agassiz
was able from parts of the skeleton of
an unknown animal to construct the
entire animal, The two axioms,
tSofn,,an nea,,,,, nc, nc ,artoif, xrb flavor
is presupposed from what it knows al
ready" and, "Under the same cir
cumstances the same substances will
always produce the same effects from
the same causes" can be applied with
equal efficacy to human nature.
Every man confesses that he has inn
perfections, and constructs an ideal
in his mind from the parts of human
ity which he has observed. He has a
longing for an ideal, and carried
higher there is an ideal which is en-
bodied in law and government.
The government of the United States
is said to be the best because it is the
of the people. 1t is Il
government of the people, and for the
people. The autOcratic and demo-
cratic theories of government are
equally the incarnation of the law
and both the law and government are
exemplified in the decalogue and in
Jesus of Nazareth. The only true re-
man is Jesus of Nazareth
and of him 1.-THE Representative
Man" Rev. DIR. Haskins will talk on
next Sunday evening.